First task: Students create their own notes page: active learning.
Uses: staff tool for library staff, showing to teachers who use it for collaborative writing
Question: how to convince everyone else to use it and contribute to it? Only as successful as how used it is... Have to use it for a specific project....
Introduces discussion tab, history tab. Purpose of discussion: to discuss current page, ask questions, etc. Students often don't pay attention to where they're posting questions and so it quickly becomes unorganized....
Activity: create/add link: to CCHS Librarything
Username: cchsreads
Password: goodbooks
On best practices in education:
On sharing...
Under manage space, can see statistics
Check out Waltham High School Wiki (on Wikis tab) for examples of classroom uses...
Student Contract & Guidelines on Nutmeg Book Award (MA) wiiproject page: nutmeg.wikispaces.com. Students post to discussion tab about why it should win.
BOOK DISCUSSION!!!
Kendall started with rules that she developed with students about how to use /not to abuse wikis before starting.
B. BLOGS
differences: blogs have rss feeds, more personalized journal entries, etc. RSS similar to getting mail at your house (vs. going to post office to pick up mail).
setting up blog reader... at bloglines
CLASS NOTES 2/8/08
PODCASTING
see youtube video "Pleasure Island Rose" for Linda's band!!
Garage Band 3 (comes on newer Macs). Audacity works on both Mac and PC. Garage Band 3 has podcast button.
Can use phone, website, or create file on PC and upload.
iRiver: portable mp3 players with built-in voice recorder. quality not great.
instead of typing stuff to your library audience, you are recording it (your self or your voice).
podcast = must have subscription (RSS feed); otherwise it's just a standalone audio file.
livejournal service costs $20: can talk up to 10 minutes. archives voice and puts it on web. can post 3 ways: public/subscribers/private link
can subscribe to podcasts via bloglines (???)
firstclass has webpage/homepage that allows you to create homepage. can store podcasts on homepage folder.
will show us garage band. then audacity
YOUTUBE: search for TEEN BOOK TALKS
see Hopkinton High School book talk podcasts on PODCAST page/link. See also Runkle School Podcasts / Elizabeth Davis. Very young kids doing it!! They also include scripts/guidelines. Recording kids doing book reviews. (incorporate what they're saying into curriculum frameworks etc.). See also handout for elementary school students. use kidspiration to do draft.... Lucy will post script tonight.
--check out Education Podcast Network (on Podcast page as link)
How to use in class:
--student council nominations (put up speeches)
--history class: newspaper
CLASS NOTES: 4/11/08
"mix down" in Audacity = combines everything--imprints all levels that recording has recorded...puts all tracks into one recording. flattens....
add ID3 tags to display title etc. in iTunes.... see link on Podcasts page. allows for content to be searchable. "every database is only as good as the data that's been entered...."
once file is ready as .mp3 file, time to upload!
BETH: blog updated. different from webpage b/c it's something you can subscribe to. easier to sit and wait at home for mail (e.g. notifications of updates get sent). podcasts = audio blogs.... same rules apply.
OPTIONS: can lock down blog in different ways: can be public w/o comments, or stop comments before auto posted... shows blogger settings. permissions tab. can choose people who will be authors. Can choose readers: anybody/people i choose, or "only blog authors".
Another option under settings: who can comment: anybody, registered users, users w/ google accounts, or only members of this blog. Can enable comment moderation.... CAN LOCK IT DOWN. Can change permissions to publish archive after class project.... In Wordpress, can make authors "draft only" (to review posts)
example of music teacher: posted assignment and hid comments. students posted questions (hidden) and then replied to questions in blog.... so kids didn't feel like dorks or stupid for asking questions.
also: if responses hidden, then they don't get "i agree" etc. but don't get back-and-forth dialogue.
sixapart owns a # of them (including moveable type, typepad, and vox): can set permissions by administrator.... much more control. better for collaborative blogging b/c of feature of different levels of authorship. better for text only or text w/ pictures... vs. multimedia blogs...
if just a webpage with link to audio file, it's just an archive. need feed and comment features to make "blog" or "podcast".
Used www.ourmedia.org (free archive). podshow.com = free storage site for podcasts.... push vs. pull technology. pull = go to website, click and download. push = sent via rss
podcast: about new books coming out! patrons can subscribe to your podcast to do new books...
EXPERIMENT: everything in beta (everything in test mode).....GAMER MENTALITY: can hit reset button. can learn from failing--just start over.
issue of safety: podcasts w/ codenames or first names only can be safer than posting video or pictures!! better way to introduce internet safety than giving the "lecture" on safety.... like building swimming pool but then putting fence around it and not letting them in. teach them how to swim!! be pro-active.
idea: can podcast a poetry night.
3-4 characteristics of blogs:
a. chnoronological posts
b. feed
c. commenting feature
d. tagging (if available)
libsyn.com (fee: liberated syndication).: informationgoddess29.libsyn.com = archive of her work. can buy server space at godaddy.com or Box media storage....<?>
<break>
on Customized Google Search Engines!! can select websites to be searched.... can embed into a wiki, etc.
Other Projects:
1. Moodle used in Weston Public Schools. includes discussions, projects, documents stored. teacher notes, supporting questions, essential questions. can see what other librarians are doing... sharing information and streamlining K-12 . librarians posting everything.
need moodle server... can sign up to use one offsite, but better to have one in district. moodle course this summer.
2. Newton: created Wiki to create summer reading list b/c not common time among us... very basic: booklist with some discussion.. also using Moodle for different purposes: prof.development, sharing materials, booklists, etc. gives ability to do a lot of sharing up and down levels as well as at the same level. one meeting a year with all K-12 library teachers. secondary library teachers meet once / month if lucky. will create more courses after adding server space. school looking at developing standards for using blogs/wikis. grappling with release permissions etc. just had demo of using firstclass for using blogs? just librarians using the moodle.
3. Waltham High School: created several wikis. created wiki for history dept. created bunch of different resources. No handout: make them look at wiki!! to force them to see it. it's private until she talks to them. on creating custom search engines. shows voicethread on the wiki.--embedded.
4. use of wiki for committee work--sort of used it and didn't use it.... if can't talk, end up using it more.... it forces the issue. ways committee work = way people meet and voices work. but if can't meet but need to get job done, it forces. didn't work as wiki space in terms of being interactive, but does work as archive... keeps changes, etc.
5. Middle School: teacher does extensive project with Inuits/Arctic/etc. Has resources in library but kids search for their own websites. Uses delicious to store and uses tags for kids to find useful... if they find good websites, i'll post to my deliicous: helps them evaluate if it's good website!! validates their choice.
del.icio.us/JHenchey
6. Jill: delicious page: notice that teachers are starting to make their own delicious pages. set up as generic one for school library:
del.icio.us/curtislibrary -- address includes tag that I'm interested in... /webevaluation (for web evaluation lesson). /europostcard = sites I want them to see for project!! kids pick up interface pretty easily. /endangered. efficient: kids don't have to type in website.... teachers will say: go to the delicious website at home and finish reading websites... if putting on homepage, have to go through tech coordinator. this can be done right away!!! bypass web master!! (subversive).
7. 2 1/2 minute podcast: on Caldecott winner for middle school-age book. will go on website (as audio archive!!). will listen as we finish.
8. working with audacity: challenged with what to do with it. mp3 file on webpage but takes a long time (so brought it on flash drive). subscription to moodletools. want to do JING (saw at conference). can't use on my mac: has to work on latest OS Leopard. subscribed to noodlebib. Tutorial/promotion for using noodletools and noodlebib and how to use it.... how to get started with these two tools. for teachers and adults. (password is library: Waltham Public Schools. check this out),
noodletools - website; noodlebib - is tool. can do notetaking. noodlebib express gives you quick citations.... then copy/paste into your doc.
9. Ruth: did booktalk, music before, booktalk, music after.... in school system: different version of everything: 4 versions of garageband!! at 4 different locations. if in big school system: go to each lab to test lab!! b/c those there in control of access/programs/etc. hope: take lowest groups in independent reading group: come to lab. use microphones and record and post to website. have to convince teachers to do it HARD and then try to get permission slips too!! teachers used to posting paragraphs on bulletin board only ....
10. Linda (teacher): screencasting screencast-o-matic.com . example: how to use catalog ALEXANDRIA. JING is another one. need to download something.
11. Nancy: did internal wiki at primary school. faculty phobic about others seeing their words (even each other!). Has honed my writing: how to get essential question and description into one line. Also important for special ed: these teachers like to do lesson before coming, so I'm much more organized.
12. Rick sent email/link to Missouri teacher of year. gives them something to download and think about/review. interesting video podcast.
MEETING NOTES:5/09/08
--use noodletools!! asks questions to make students thing about notes, make notecards. management tools for teachers: can see who has notecards done and how many. box to paraphrase quotes and put "my ideas". can email to self or as doc. go to Waltham Public School site and use "library" as password. has guides etc. have to generate citation before creating notecards.
--check podcasts by Alan November, Doug Johnson, NECC (search on these terms)
--take Copyright Quiz.
--BPL has electronic resources --> video --> "internet archive" under audio and video
--on what you can do with video and copyright: "copying okay only if replacements unavailable"
--images: cite image at point of 1st cite (i.e. right on powerpoint slide)
--can't repost images on web... can put link to image, though (i.e./e.g. what about webquest posted on website?
SOLUTIONS: HAVE TO USE CREATIVE COMMONS!!!
--how are images like/unlike text? can't you just cite images like text? images are the whole work vs. text excerpt is only part of the whole...
--spectrum: get "everything goes b/c i'm an educator" vs. copyright cops/hawks.
--student attitudes: if it's there, I can use it! (they get angry)
--synchronization rights? (e.g. using music with images that creator of music wouldn't want synchronized with that)
--post further questions to wiki.
--question about poetry: whole poems
--TEACH ACT OF 2002: clarifies law
KENDALL BONINTI ON WIKISPACES
1. Biomes Wiki: biomee.wikispaces.com
--code of ethics/assesment/project outline. each group had own page. can use discussion tab... were graded on collaborative piece (took a long time to go through it!!)
--each group could see what others had done....motivated them to see what other groups doing. added comments in discussion threads: "use this source"
--only teacher could click on Block links (so students in one block can't see what students in other ones did)
2 Industrial Revolution Entrepeneurial Project (entreproject.wikispaces.com) -- year long project. this one still private.
--each student gets a page to write out steps. then partner critiqued plan. critiques done in discussion section. others critiqued too!! teacher also critiqued for each student.
--had to do advertisement (podcast/print/word doc/etc.)
3. Urban Landscapes (Advanced Art class): urbanlandscapes.wikispaces.com)
--re-paint urban landscape. each student had own page to document steps in making their own art. had converssations etc. other teachers invited to comment on work... capture process of art projectl ARCHIVE PROCESS
--collaborate making stories together and have to critique each other's work!!!
--someone got work erased and was frustrated!!
5. Music - whsinstrumentalmusic.wikispaces.com
--critique of music and then discussion about music on discussion tab... (music clips uploaded on imeem.com) link to CHS?!!! i would not use imeem
QUESTION: What was role of teachers? did Kendall do most of tech work and then show teachers? Totallly varied.... Biomes: teacher didn't know anything.... Only did it w/ teachers she thought would go on and pick it up/go further.... Design project together with teacher. Did they come to me? or me to them? "I want to do research paper" and give assignment from 1990!!! "'let's try something different"
Also out selling at dept. meetings. "bring in new business" (e.g. art and music). can't unblock music or spanish. b/c teachers themselves are organizers....
--need to be upfront with how it'll be used. will you share it?
--students love this!!!
do differently: issue = structure of assignment. want to be accommodating to teacher and so give in and not push them too far.... even though I know it'll be better. wiki has to be very well structured.... wiki has to be well-designed/well-structured. otherwise conversations happening everywhere and everything scattered around.... need to do follow-up, e.g. (eg. project over but don't find out what worked/didn't work: some students didn't like it b/c had to be in lab to do work...problems come up: work disappearing: "do work in two places!!! so don't lose work")
--also: rubric done differently (where we pick a number / biome: I helped evaluate/grade project).
DISCOVERY EDUCATION STREAMING: 12/5/08
--1.5 billion subscribers worldwide / 35 languages / 50,000 video segments available
--Discovery Educators Network (DEN)
--all new products now created w/ this common denominator: wireless or "wi fi" (TiVO, PS2, cell phones, etc.)
--Google's 10th birthday
--less than an hour on homework vs. 6 hrs on multimedia exposure per day. need to engage students with tools they are using.
--all content downloadable (for copyright purposes). not all have interactive whiteboards... can download and burn onto CDs. important for integration too. downloading minimizes bandwidth issues and gives us copyright/permission to burn as many copies as we can. Share as widely as we want as long asy it's for educational purposes. Can also post to web and be copyright protected!!!! Discovery fought for these rights.
--videos can be downloaded to iPods or other portable tools so as to engage students with what they have
--test results: proven improvements (rural VA and urban LA)
--Jay Walter Thompson: oldest advertising agencies. had PhD in Education who studied brains of children: studied retention of info. 7-10 times for a "burn" into the brain.
--7-10 times vs. 3-5 in past b/c more info we're processing these days....
ON WEBSITE discoveryeducation.com:--clip art available... all copyright safe!!! can search for lesson plans... 3000 audio files... (copyrightable!)
--Bill Nye on environmental impact of bathroom stuff
--50,000 video segments added... (10,000 added per year)
--all matched to state standards in every subject... a licensed educator watches every one of these segments to assign subjects, grade level, and standards.
--can narrow search gradually
--UChicago study: parents: can internet be used as tool for education? 60% said NO!! 80% of educators said YES. other 20% said we don't have enough resources and tools to use it.
--mycontent folder to keep track of content. can create folders inside of this... unlimited space (cloud computing --> web 3.0
web 2.0 = collaboration / web 3.0 = "hard drive in the sky" / "cloud computing" -- things are always available from whatever computer wherever it is. instant quick access via my content. / assignment builders and quizzes and writing prompts
--best quality when video is on desktop / c: drive... otherwise multiple processes to do via CD or flash drive or streaming
--Network Manager ($295 one-time fee) allows for downloading overnight to server. OR can mail out terabyte drives OR buy servers from DELL... OR upgrade bandwidth to T3 or fiber.
--offer professional development tools to improve usage. see TEACHER CENTER and PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
--import into iMovie or Moviemaker to create new movies!!! no direct student access (b/c of potential problems with age-appropriate access to older material).
--ex: download video and put on Moodle site so no need to log on to streaming site.
--TEACHER CENTER has assignment/quiz builders and writing prompts. all builders have user's guide. can search quiz library. add to "school quizzes" and make it available to every other class in school/district. thereby share quizzes with others. also a national database (DE quizzes).
--can get notification when students complete quiz. can also display questions in random order!! or question by question vs. all at once. also can view graded quiz. Can differentiate (some get q by q while others get all at once; some slower readers but other are and so can give close-captioned...)
--COPYRIGHT: Moodle protects copyright b/c password protection... (we have 30 secs. from any kind of multimedia!! is this right?). when posting images/etc. google/yahoo catalogues the web and saves stuff (even after you delete picture!). if we have password protected site, then use code in protected site. drop link on desktop e.g. / not sharing code with world... can post on wiki or moodle (so password protected). OR student center link. Quiz Code.--question database--working on classroom manager tool (exportable) so that can separate students in quiz list by grade / also so we can upload students to break down into classes/folders/etc.
--CURRICULUM RESOURCES (under TEACHER CENTER): calendar / lesson plan library / thematic focus / discovery education atlas
--calendar lets you search by date for videos from history / 200 lesson plans made to maximize use of video; also ISTE lesson plans
--thematic focus: have weekly focus w/ teacher discussion guides/grade level discussion guides AND provides video and activities (puzzles). Also an archive of thematic focus items.
--DE Atlas: can focus on country and have videos presented (as well as topics: gov't/culture/history/etc).
--"media settings" under video --> to switch on close captioning and also change from WMV to MOV and bandwidth--can create own subtitles/close captioning file / have to dowload CC file and put in same folder as video before running...--GoogleEarth (kmz files = local files. can add link in googleearth placemark to assignment or quiz link. copy link into description. save as local file (kmz or kml) --> coordinates. saves coordinates/links/info description field. burn this to CD or on flash drive. when they click kmz file, it'll open google earth and take them to that place.. google earth options: touring tab can slow fly-to speed...
--PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT --> project demonstrations w/ 50 ways to use via tutorials --"green screening" (aka "blue screen"). Adobe Premiere Elements = best program for this... put speaker in bottom corner and point to video... "chroma key tool" pulls out background. chroma key green (b/c skin tones don't have green). there's a tutorial for this here. google sketch-up (3-D modeling program FREE: lesson plan for using this too)./ Inspiration and Moviemaker tutorials as well. put these in an assignment builder so they don't have to log in...they just use the code to get in... also do 150 webinars per year (e.g. Daniel Pink) which are archived. (via "register today" link)
--DEN blogs: for day-to-day addtional resources from "star educators"
--Discovery Education Science: gaming orientation / interactive glossary / interactive labs via flash
--on embedding videos in Powerpoint: keep in same folder with presentation file!!
--DE has editable videos which are purchased with those rights... We'll know that these will work well in movie editing programs. can do advanced search on editable titles to get these. more than half of content set to be editable.
--Flip Minot camera ($150): drops file onto desktop (no batteries). --download all images/files to folder and then let students create video. take your image of rock and be narrator...
--three sizes of images: small = thumbnails / medium = powerpoint or moviemaker / large = printable pictures.
--tools: narrate timeline. START NARRATION button / tools: video transitions to add transition
--see PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT > Teaching Tips for how to use movie maker and embedding videos in powerpoint. see "learning centers in the classroom" too / project demos > iMovie tutorial
DISCOVERY EDUCATOR NETWORK (DEN)
--26,800 educators worldwide / 2500 STAR Discovery Educators in 46 states etc.
--www.DENcommunity.com
--on becoming a STAR Discovery Educator
CLASS NOTES: 1/25/08
A. WIKIS
First task: Students create their own notes page: active learning.
Uses: staff tool for library staff, showing to teachers who use it for collaborative writing
Question: how to convince everyone else to use it and contribute to it? Only as successful as how used it is... Have to use it for a specific project....
Introduces discussion tab, history tab. Purpose of discussion: to discuss current page, ask questions, etc. Students often don't pay attention to where they're posting questions and so it quickly becomes unorganized....
Activity: create/add link: to CCHS Librarything
Username: cchsreads
Password: goodbooks
On best practices in education:
On sharing...
Under manage space, can see statistics
Check out Waltham High School Wiki (on Wikis tab) for examples of classroom uses...
Student Contract & Guidelines on Nutmeg Book Award (MA) wiiproject page: nutmeg.wikispaces.com. Students post to discussion tab about why it should win.
BOOK DISCUSSION!!!
Kendall started with rules that she developed with students about how to use /not to abuse wikis before starting.
B. BLOGS
differences: blogs have rss feeds, more personalized journal entries, etc. RSS similar to getting mail at your house (vs. going to post office to pick up mail).
setting up blog reader... at bloglines
CLASS NOTES 2/8/08
PODCASTING
see youtube video "Pleasure Island Rose" for Linda's band!!
Garage Band 3 (comes on newer Macs). Audacity works on both Mac and PC. Garage Band 3 has podcast button.
Can use phone, website, or create file on PC and upload.
iRiver: portable mp3 players with built-in voice recorder. quality not great.
instead of typing stuff to your library audience, you are recording it (your self or your voice).
podcast = must have subscription (RSS feed); otherwise it's just a standalone audio file.
livejournal service costs $20: can talk up to 10 minutes. archives voice and puts it on web. can post 3 ways: public/subscribers/private link
can subscribe to podcasts via bloglines (???)
firstclass has webpage/homepage that allows you to create homepage. can store podcasts on homepage folder.
will show us garage band. then audacity
YOUTUBE: search for TEEN BOOK TALKS
see Hopkinton High School book talk podcasts on PODCAST page/link. See also Runkle School Podcasts / Elizabeth Davis. Very young kids doing it!! They also include scripts/guidelines. Recording kids doing book reviews. (incorporate what they're saying into curriculum frameworks etc.). See also handout for elementary school students. use kidspiration to do draft.... Lucy will post script tonight.
--check out Education Podcast Network (on Podcast page as link)
How to use in class:
--student council nominations (put up speeches)
--history class: newspaper
CLASS NOTES: 4/11/08
"mix down" in Audacity = combines everything--imprints all levels that recording has recorded...puts all tracks into one recording. flattens....
add ID3 tags to display title etc. in iTunes.... see link on Podcasts page. allows for content to be searchable. "every database is only as good as the data that's been entered...."
once file is ready as .mp3 file, time to upload!
BETH: blog updated. different from webpage b/c it's something you can subscribe to. easier to sit and wait at home for mail (e.g. notifications of updates get sent). podcasts = audio blogs.... same rules apply.
OPTIONS: can lock down blog in different ways: can be public w/o comments, or stop comments before auto posted... shows blogger settings. permissions tab. can choose people who will be authors. Can choose readers: anybody/people i choose, or "only blog authors".
Another option under settings: who can comment: anybody, registered users, users w/ google accounts, or only members of this blog. Can enable comment moderation.... CAN LOCK IT DOWN. Can change permissions to publish archive after class project.... In Wordpress, can make authors "draft only" (to review posts)
example of music teacher: posted assignment and hid comments. students posted questions (hidden) and then replied to questions in blog.... so kids didn't feel like dorks or stupid for asking questions.
also: if responses hidden, then they don't get "i agree" etc. but don't get back-and-forth dialogue.
sixapart owns a # of them (including moveable type, typepad, and vox): can set permissions by administrator.... much more control. better for collaborative blogging b/c of feature of different levels of authorship. better for text only or text w/ pictures... vs. multimedia blogs...
if just a webpage with link to audio file, it's just an archive. need feed and comment features to make "blog" or "podcast".
Used www.ourmedia.org (free archive). podshow.com = free storage site for podcasts.... push vs. pull technology. pull = go to website, click and download. push = sent via rss
podcast: about new books coming out! patrons can subscribe to your podcast to do new books...
EXPERIMENT: everything in beta (everything in test mode).....GAMER MENTALITY: can hit reset button. can learn from failing--just start over.
issue of safety: podcasts w/ codenames or first names only can be safer than posting video or pictures!! better way to introduce internet safety than giving the "lecture" on safety.... like building swimming pool but then putting fence around it and not letting them in. teach them how to swim!! be pro-active.
idea: can podcast a poetry night.
3-4 characteristics of blogs:
a. chnoronological posts
b. feed
c. commenting feature
d. tagging (if available)
libsyn.com (fee: liberated syndication).: informationgoddess29.libsyn.com = archive of her work. can buy server space at godaddy.com or Box media storage....<?>
<break>
on Customized Google Search Engines!! can select websites to be searched.... can embed into a wiki, etc.
Other Projects:
1. Moodle used in Weston Public Schools. includes discussions, projects, documents stored. teacher notes, supporting questions, essential questions. can see what other librarians are doing... sharing information and streamlining K-12 . librarians posting everything.
need moodle server... can sign up to use one offsite, but better to have one in district. moodle course this summer.
2. Newton: created Wiki to create summer reading list b/c not common time among us... very basic: booklist with some discussion.. also using Moodle for different purposes: prof.development, sharing materials, booklists, etc. gives ability to do a lot of sharing up and down levels as well as at the same level. one meeting a year with all K-12 library teachers. secondary library teachers meet once / month if lucky. will create more courses after adding server space. school looking at developing standards for using blogs/wikis. grappling with release permissions etc. just had demo of using firstclass for using blogs? just librarians using the moodle.
3. Waltham High School: created several wikis. created wiki for history dept. created bunch of different resources. No handout: make them look at wiki!! to force them to see it. it's private until she talks to them. on creating custom search engines. shows voicethread on the wiki.--embedded.
4. use of wiki for committee work--sort of used it and didn't use it.... if can't talk, end up using it more.... it forces the issue. ways committee work = way people meet and voices work. but if can't meet but need to get job done, it forces. didn't work as wiki space in terms of being interactive, but does work as archive... keeps changes, etc.
5. Middle School: teacher does extensive project with Inuits/Arctic/etc. Has resources in library but kids search for their own websites. Uses delicious to store and uses tags for kids to find useful... if they find good websites, i'll post to my deliicous: helps them evaluate if it's good website!! validates their choice.
del.icio.us/JHenchey
6. Jill: delicious page: notice that teachers are starting to make their own delicious pages. set up as generic one for school library:
del.icio.us/curtislibrary -- address includes tag that I'm interested in... /webevaluation (for web evaluation lesson). /europostcard = sites I want them to see for project!! kids pick up interface pretty easily. /endangered. efficient: kids don't have to type in website.... teachers will say: go to the delicious website at home and finish reading websites... if putting on homepage, have to go through tech coordinator. this can be done right away!!! bypass web master!! (subversive).
7. 2 1/2 minute podcast: on Caldecott winner for middle school-age book. will go on website (as audio archive!!). will listen as we finish.
8. working with audacity: challenged with what to do with it. mp3 file on webpage but takes a long time (so brought it on flash drive). subscription to moodletools. want to do JING (saw at conference). can't use on my mac: has to work on latest OS Leopard. subscribed to noodlebib. Tutorial/promotion for using noodletools and noodlebib and how to use it.... how to get started with these two tools. for teachers and adults. (password is library: Waltham Public Schools. check this out),
noodletools - website; noodlebib - is tool. can do notetaking. noodlebib express gives you quick citations.... then copy/paste into your doc.
9. Ruth: did booktalk, music before, booktalk, music after.... in school system: different version of everything: 4 versions of garageband!! at 4 different locations. if in big school system: go to each lab to test lab!! b/c those there in control of access/programs/etc. hope: take lowest groups in independent reading group: come to lab. use microphones and record and post to website. have to convince teachers to do it HARD and then try to get permission slips too!! teachers used to posting paragraphs on bulletin board only ....
10. Linda (teacher): screencasting screencast-o-matic.com . example: how to use catalog ALEXANDRIA. JING is another one. need to download something.
11. Nancy: did internal wiki at primary school. faculty phobic about others seeing their words (even each other!). Has honed my writing: how to get essential question and description into one line. Also important for special ed: these teachers like to do lesson before coming, so I'm much more organized.
12. Rick sent email/link to Missouri teacher of year. gives them something to download and think about/review. interesting video podcast.
MEETING NOTES:5/09/08
--use noodletools!! asks questions to make students thing about notes, make notecards. management tools for teachers: can see who has notecards done and how many. box to paraphrase quotes and put "my ideas". can email to self or as doc. go to Waltham Public School site and use "library" as password. has guides etc. have to generate citation before creating notecards.
--check podcasts by Alan November, Doug Johnson, NECC (search on these terms)
--take Copyright Quiz.
--BPL has electronic resources --> video --> "internet archive" under audio and video
--on what you can do with video and copyright: "copying okay only if replacements unavailable"
--images: cite image at point of 1st cite (i.e. right on powerpoint slide)
--can't repost images on web... can put link to image, though (i.e./e.g. what about webquest posted on website?
SOLUTIONS: HAVE TO USE CREATIVE COMMONS!!!
--how are images like/unlike text? can't you just cite images like text? images are the whole work vs. text excerpt is only part of the whole...
--spectrum: get "everything goes b/c i'm an educator" vs. copyright cops/hawks.
--student attitudes: if it's there, I can use it! (they get angry)
--synchronization rights? (e.g. using music with images that creator of music wouldn't want synchronized with that)
--post further questions to wiki.
--question about poetry: whole poems
--TEACH ACT OF 2002: clarifies law
KENDALL BONINTI ON WIKISPACES
1. Biomes Wiki: biomee.wikispaces.com
--code of ethics/assesment/project outline. each group had own page. can use discussion tab... were graded on collaborative piece (took a long time to go through it!!)
--each group could see what others had done....motivated them to see what other groups doing. added comments in discussion threads: "use this source"
--only teacher could click on Block links (so students in one block can't see what students in other ones did)
2 Industrial Revolution Entrepeneurial Project (entreproject.wikispaces.com) -- year long project. this one still private.
--each student gets a page to write out steps. then partner critiqued plan. critiques done in discussion section. others critiqued too!! teacher also critiqued for each student.
--had to do advertisement (podcast/print/word doc/etc.)
3. Urban Landscapes (Advanced Art class): urbanlandscapes.wikispaces.com)
--re-paint urban landscape. each student had own page to document steps in making their own art. had converssations etc. other teachers invited to comment on work... capture process of art projectl ARCHIVE PROCESS
4. Collaborative Writing (Spanish) -- whsspanish4.wikispaces.com
--collaborate making stories together and have to critique each other's work!!!
--someone got work erased and was frustrated!!
5. Music - whsinstrumentalmusic.wikispaces.com
--critique of music and then discussion about music on discussion tab... (music clips uploaded on imeem.com) link to CHS?!!! i would not use imeem
QUESTION: What was role of teachers? did Kendall do most of tech work and then show teachers? Totallly varied.... Biomes: teacher didn't know anything.... Only did it w/ teachers she thought would go on and pick it up/go further.... Design project together with teacher. Did they come to me? or me to them? "I want to do research paper" and give assignment from 1990!!! "'let's try something different"
Also out selling at dept. meetings. "bring in new business" (e.g. art and music). can't unblock music or spanish. b/c teachers themselves are organizers....
--need to be upfront with how it'll be used. will you share it?
--students love this!!!
do differently: issue = structure of assignment. want to be accommodating to teacher and so give in and not push them too far.... even though I know it'll be better. wiki has to be very well structured.... wiki has to be well-designed/well-structured. otherwise conversations happening everywhere and everything scattered around.... need to do follow-up, e.g. (eg. project over but don't find out what worked/didn't work: some students didn't like it b/c had to be in lab to do work...problems come up: work disappearing: "do work in two places!!! so don't lose work")
--also: rubric done differently (where we pick a number / biome: I helped evaluate/grade project).
DISCOVERY EDUCATION STREAMING: 12/5/08
--1.5 billion subscribers worldwide / 35 languages / 50,000 video segments available
--Discovery Educators Network (DEN)
--all new products now created w/ this common denominator: wireless or "wi fi" (TiVO, PS2, cell phones, etc.)
--Google's 10th birthday
--less than an hour on homework vs. 6 hrs on multimedia exposure per day. need to engage students with tools they are using.
--all content downloadable (for copyright purposes). not all have interactive whiteboards... can download and burn onto CDs. important for integration too. downloading minimizes bandwidth issues and gives us copyright/permission to burn as many copies as we can. Share as widely as we want as long asy it's for educational purposes. Can also post to web and be copyright protected!!!! Discovery fought for these rights.
--videos can be downloaded to iPods or other portable tools so as to engage students with what they have
--test results: proven improvements (rural VA and urban LA)
--Jay Walter Thompson: oldest advertising agencies. had PhD in Education who studied brains of children: studied retention of info. 7-10 times for a "burn" into the brain.
--7-10 times vs. 3-5 in past b/c more info we're processing these days....
ON WEBSITE discoveryeducation.com:--clip art available... all copyright safe!!! can search for lesson plans... 3000 audio files... (copyrightable!)
--Bill Nye on environmental impact of bathroom stuff
--50,000 video segments added... (10,000 added per year)
--all matched to state standards in every subject... a licensed educator watches every one of these segments to assign subjects, grade level, and standards.
--can narrow search gradually
--UChicago study: parents: can internet be used as tool for education? 60% said NO!! 80% of educators said YES. other 20% said we don't have enough resources and tools to use it.
--mycontent folder to keep track of content. can create folders inside of this... unlimited space (cloud computing --> web 3.0
web 2.0 = collaboration / web 3.0 = "hard drive in the sky" / "cloud computing" -- things are always available from whatever computer wherever it is. instant quick access via my content. / assignment builders and quizzes and writing prompts
--best quality when video is on desktop / c: drive... otherwise multiple processes to do via CD or flash drive or streaming
--Network Manager ($295 one-time fee) allows for downloading overnight to server. OR can mail out terabyte drives OR buy servers from DELL... OR upgrade bandwidth to T3 or fiber.
--offer professional development tools to improve usage. see TEACHER CENTER and PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
--import into iMovie or Moviemaker to create new movies!!! no direct student access (b/c of potential problems with age-appropriate access to older material).
--ex: download video and put on Moodle site so no need to log on to streaming site.
--TEACHER CENTER has assignment/quiz builders and writing prompts. all builders have user's guide. can search quiz library. add to "school quizzes" and make it available to every other class in school/district. thereby share quizzes with others. also a national database (DE quizzes).
--can get notification when students complete quiz. can also display questions in random order!! or question by question vs. all at once. also can view graded quiz. Can differentiate (some get q by q while others get all at once; some slower readers but other are and so can give close-captioned...)
--COPYRIGHT: Moodle protects copyright b/c password protection... (we have 30 secs. from any kind of multimedia!! is this right?). when posting images/etc. google/yahoo catalogues the web and saves stuff (even after you delete picture!). if we have password protected site, then use code in protected site. drop link on desktop e.g. / not sharing code with world... can post on wiki or moodle (so password protected). OR student center link. Quiz Code.--question database--working on classroom manager tool (exportable) so that can separate students in quiz list by grade / also so we can upload students to break down into classes/folders/etc.
--CURRICULUM RESOURCES (under TEACHER CENTER): calendar / lesson plan library / thematic focus / discovery education atlas
--calendar lets you search by date for videos from history / 200 lesson plans made to maximize use of video; also ISTE lesson plans
--thematic focus: have weekly focus w/ teacher discussion guides/grade level discussion guides AND provides video and activities (puzzles). Also an archive of thematic focus items.
--DE Atlas: can focus on country and have videos presented (as well as topics: gov't/culture/history/etc).
--"media settings" under video --> to switch on close captioning and also change from WMV to MOV and bandwidth--can create own subtitles/close captioning file / have to dowload CC file and put in same folder as video before running...--GoogleEarth (kmz files = local files. can add link in googleearth placemark to assignment or quiz link. copy link into description. save as local file (kmz or kml) --> coordinates. saves coordinates/links/info description field. burn this to CD or on flash drive. when they click kmz file, it'll open google earth and take them to that place.. google earth options: touring tab can slow fly-to speed...
--PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT --> project demonstrations w/ 50 ways to use via tutorials --"green screening" (aka "blue screen"). Adobe Premiere Elements = best program for this... put speaker in bottom corner and point to video... "chroma key tool" pulls out background. chroma key green (b/c skin tones don't have green). there's a tutorial for this here. google sketch-up (3-D modeling program FREE: lesson plan for using this too)./ Inspiration and Moviemaker tutorials as well. put these in an assignment builder so they don't have to log in...they just use the code to get in... also do 150 webinars per year (e.g. Daniel Pink) which are archived. (via "register today" link)
--DEN blogs: for day-to-day addtional resources from "star educators"
--Discovery Education Science: gaming orientation / interactive glossary / interactive labs via flash
--on embedding videos in Powerpoint: keep in same folder with presentation file!!
--DE has editable videos which are purchased with those rights... We'll know that these will work well in movie editing programs. can do advanced search on editable titles to get these. more than half of content set to be editable.
--Flip Minot camera ($150): drops file onto desktop (no batteries). --download all images/files to folder and then let students create video. take your image of rock and be narrator...
--three sizes of images: small = thumbnails / medium = powerpoint or moviemaker / large = printable pictures.
--tools: narrate timeline. START NARRATION button / tools: video transitions to add transition
--see PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT > Teaching Tips for how to use movie maker and embedding videos in powerpoint. see "learning centers in the classroom" too / project demos > iMovie tutorial
DISCOVERY EDUCATOR NETWORK (DEN)
--26,800 educators worldwide / 2500 STAR Discovery Educators in 46 states etc.
--www.DENcommunity.com
--on becoming a STAR Discovery Educator